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  • From: Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v AT gmail.com>
  • To: "sm, discuss" <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] [sm-discuss] unable to remount root on boot (DEV run level) after yesterday's "sorcery -s".
  • Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 07:54:47 -0600

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v AT gmail.com>
wrote:
> sorcery -s brought new perl between several other things.
>
> On a x86-64 (not sure about i686 yet given it's still running), the
> machine no longer boots. It gets stuck at attempting to remount root
> on the corresponding runlevel...
>
> The only message I could get at the very end (there's an additional
> *sync* stuff I have no time to read and write by hand) is:
>
> rc: Entered run level DEV...
> Ext4-fs (sda7): remounted opts: (null)
>
> Well, null because I removed the option from /etc/fstab
> errors=remount-ro. If I keep it, the message would say instead (if I
> recall correctly):
>
> rc: Entered run level DEV...
> Ext4-fs (sda7): remounted opts: (ro)
>
> I've already "cfdisk -f" sda7 (root), and all other partitions for that
> matter.
>
> Using "single" as kernel parameter (called by grub menu "recovery
> mode") doesn't help either...
>
> I performed also cleanse by chrooting in the machine through live CD.
>
> I've re-casted some spells (through chroot from live CD) like "gettext
> glibc readline util-linux e2fsprogs texinfo", and that doesn't seem to
> help. Notice wget wasn't able to compile given some pod2man message
> complaining about expecting text and not a number at some point...
>
> Any hint?

BTW, I also re-casted "simpleinit-msb init.d module-init-tools
basesystem", just in case, and again, that didn't help...

The problem seems to be the ability to mount. However things were
working OK prior the the update, and re-casting util-linux was
successful, and cleanse didn't complain.

Any suggestions?

--
Javier.




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